{"id":723,"date":"2004-01-06T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/06\/read-this-engine-failure\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:55:26","slug":"read-this-engine-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/06\/read-this-engine-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This: Engine Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorting through a batch of accumulated magazines, I read this interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolismag.com\/html\/content_0104\/ob\/ob01_0104.html\">Joel Kotkin<\/A> in <I>Metropolis<\/I>, which led me to track down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycfuture.org\/content\/reports\/report_view.cfm?repkey=118\">this<\/a>, which he coauthored for the Center For an Urban Future.  I haven&#8217;t read the entire 40-page report yet, but this bit in the summary was worrying enough:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;9\/11 also appears to be having a significant impact on the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to attract and retain two of the demographic groups that were so critical to New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s success in the 1990s: young, educated people who moved to New York from other parts of the country and foreign-born immigrants. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Come to think of it, relationship issues aside, I&#8217;m reasonably certain <I>I<\/I> would not have taken the plunge of moving to New York, even the outer boroughs, if I hadn&#8217;t already done so a year before 9\/11.  As a non-native, I&#8217;m not completely attached to the city&#8212;and, frankly, could easily see myself in, say, Seattle or Portland under the right circumstances.  But it <I>is<\/I> my home for the foreseeable future, and of course one likes to see one&#8217;s home community doing well. <\/p>\n<p>In all fairness, though, the summary also notes that many of NYC&#8217;s worst economic trends were already in motion well before 9\/11, which functions more as a placemarker than a genuine catalyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorting through a batch of accumulated magazines, I read this interview with Joel Kotkin in Metropolis, which led me to track down this, which he coauthored for the Center For an Urban Future. I haven&#8217;t read the entire 40-page report yet, but this bit in the summary was worrying enough: &#8220;9\/11 also appears to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}